Chapter 409: Love You! (10/10, Autumn Subscription)

His heart gave a sudden lurch, and Fang Yue's fury flared up in an instant.

In that moment, every thought of the gap in their strength, every thought of probing—were swept aside by him.

There was only one thought in his mind: to slaughter the woman before his eyes!

But before the fury could erupt into action—

Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly spotted Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's little head poking out from behind a large rock nearby, along with half of Lord Han's head held up above it.

The surging fury suddenly jammed.

Fang Yue was stunned for a beat, then immediately didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Damn!

He figured out at once what had happened.

Apparently, when the two sides had started fighting, that girl Wu Wu had grabbed Lord Han's head and run off to hide behind the big rock.

No wonder I couldn't see Lord Han's head!

But as long as Lord Han was fine—and judging from the groans of the people on the ground, everyone had only been knocked down, no one was dead.

Fang Yue set his mind at ease and regained his composure.

"Xiao Ye, careful! She's very strong!"

Lin Ling, one hand pressed against her chest, bit down hard and forced herself to stand as she roared.

Did that even need Lin Ling's reminder?

That absurd speed—Fang Yue had seen it with his own eyes, okay.

"Who are you?"

Staring coldly at the girl before him, flames silently ignited across Fang Yue's body, and the Fire Blade within the Ningtai Ring took shape in an instant!

But the green-eyed girl did not respond to Fang Yue.

With a puzzled look, she leaned in toward Fang Yue and sniffed hard.

Sniff sniff!

Sniff sniff!

Fang Yue suppressed the urge to slash her with one cut, waited until the green-eyed girl stopped moving, then asked, "What are you trying to do?"

If not for the terrifying strength this one had displayed, Fang Yue's blade would have already fallen on her long ago.

Right now it was unclear whether she was friend or foe, so Fang Yue couldn't strike directly.

If the other party was merely neutral, and he ended up turning her hostile with one slash of his blade—that would be a disaster.

"Sheep… skin… paper… where?"

"…I don't know what you're talking about."

The sheepskin paper was Fang Yue's greatest secret—how could he possibly tell her anything about it?

Only, the current situation was very bad.

This one was an opponent he could not handle.

Did that mean he had to…

Fang Yue cried out inwardly, his heart aching.

"Sheepskin paper! Sheepy! Calling Sheepy! Does that golden stone from before still count?"

But the sheepskin paper gave no response at all.

Fang Yue called out a few more times in his heart, then suddenly remembered something and froze.

He remembered… a few days ago, the sheepskin paper had seemed to say she was hiding from something, refusing to use her abilities. She had even been unwilling to come out and talk with him.

If the battle at Gu Yue Cun hadn't been so perilous, Fang Yue guessed the sheepskin paper still wouldn't have shown herself by then.

Looking again at the green-eyed girl before him… in other words, the one the sheepskin paper had been hiding from back then—was her?

Just as Fang Yue was thinking this, the green-eyed girl before him slowly furrowed her brow.

"Hand over… the sheepskin paper."

The moment the green-eyed girl's hand made the motion of lifting—

Thud!

Fang Yue's heart abruptly stopped, as if gripped tight by something, ceasing to beat.

Only now did Fang Yue react, staring blankly down at his own chest.

The green-eyed girl's right hand—God knew when—had already pierced straight through his chest, reaching into the spot where his heart was.

"Xiao Ye!!" Lord Han roared, tumbling down from Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's hands.

"Captain Ye!!" the villagers cried out in alarm.

"Ye Ge?!" Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was so terrified she collapsed to the ground, her face drained of color.

"No!!" Lin Ling screamed hoarsely, scrambling up on all fours and running toward them.

But all of it seemed to be drifting away, growing blurry and unreal.

Fang Yue's pupils dilated, and with a heavy thud he half-knelt, mouth hanging open as if trying to speak, but his consciousness was slowly fading, strength draining from his body at speed.

His upper body tilted forward, and his head fell onto the green-eyed girl's shoulder.

Everything around him was turning blurry, his vision steadily darkening, the frequency of his brain's activity gradually slowing.

He seemed… about to die.

Fang Yue didn't understand what had happened—he hadn't even seen how the green-eyed girl had struck.

Everything happened too fast—too fast for him to even try to save himself before he'd already taken the hit.

His consciousness was on the verge of plunging into total darkness.

Fang Yue trembled, shuddering with dread.

After experiencing his brain being turned into something uncanny, and hearing Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu say that Hai Ming had been blown apart, with reality also synchronizing with the incident—

Fang Yue did not know—if he died in the game, what would actually happen to him in reality.

"I... don't want to die..."

At the very end of his consciousness, this single thought was all that surfaced.

And almost the instant Fang Yue's final thought fell—

A voice, within Fang Yue's dark consciousness space, exploded like thunder!!

【TIME! REWIND!】

The unfathomably mysterious flow of time paused for an instant!

Then, it began to flow backward!

The darkness receded in reverse!

His consciousness returned to his body!

Outside the consciousness space, the jade hand that had been plunged into Fang Yue's chest was pushed out by an irresistible force.

The wound on Fang Yue's chest healed back, as if a video were rewinding.

The green-eyed girl stared at the scene before her in disbelief, took two steps back, and lowered her head to look at her own right hand.

"It's not... the parchment?"

Haa-choo! Haa-choo!

Coming back to his senses, Fang Yue gasped for air like a drowning person who had just been pulled out, drenched in cold sweat all over, as if he really had been dragged out of a river.

Wh-what happened?

The voice just now was... the parchment?

She could make sounds now?

No, that's not the point...

As Fang Yue stood there in a daze, text suddenly surfaced in his mind.

【This is too much! This is way too much!】

【How dare you lay a finger on my person!】

【No way to dodge! No way to endure!】

【Fang Yue, materialize me!!】

Ah, this...

Fang Yue was a little dumbfounded. The thing in front of him felt even more formidable than Chen Lao—can you actually pull this off?

【Watch! Me! Cover! You!】

Fang Yue's spirit lifted, and an inexplicable surge of emotion welled up in his heart.

Parchment!! Love you!!

"Ye Ge?!"

"Captain Ye!"

"Xiao Ye!!"

Amid the stunned and joyful cries of the others, Fang Yue stepped forward and pressed his hand over the green-eyed girl's face.

"Parchment!!"

Whoosh!!

Golden light erupted from Fang Yue's hand, from the green-eyed girl's face.

Wow, a golden legend!

An antique parchment materialized in Fang Yue's hand, shifting from illusion to substance, and stuck itself onto the green-eyed girl's face!

Almost the instant the parchment appeared—

A deep, primordial aura spread out wildly, centered on the parchment!

Above and below, the very heavens changed color!

Gale winds howled, the ground trembled, ten thousand grasses surged!

Even the clouds in the sky suddenly accelerated and swept past, as if on fast-forward.

The time of the surrounding scenery, at this moment, seemed to have been spun into fast-forward.

And just then, only on the parchment did golden special-effect text emerge, breaking free from the parchment's body and rising into midair.

Those three characters gleamed with golden light, grand and solemn, as if a deity had descended—commanding awe without even needing to be angry!

【OLD! HAG!!】

(End of this chapter)